Any to PDF Node

The Any to PDF node converts all Supported File Types to a PDF document. This is useful if you need to process multiple file formats and convert them into PDF documents without needing additional flows or steps. The node properties will contain settings specific to various formats that could be converted by this node.

NOTE: Some conversion format settings will be global and found in PAS Conversion Preferences instead of the node properties.

General Settings

Excel to PDF

Add a Bookmark for each sheet - Creates a bookmark in the PDF for each sheet in the workbook

Scaling - Determines how the spreadsheet will be broken up into pages when converting to PDF. PDF Automation Server will use page size and margin settings set within the Excel document when creating the PDF document.

Fit to Page: shrinks the entire worksheet so that it all fits on a single page
Fit to Width: shrinks the worksheet so that all columns fit on a single page. Rows will continue onto additional pages as needed
Actual Size: no scaling, when the data does not fit on one page it will be broken up into pages using the Page Order set within the Excel file.

Text to PDF

Font

Font - The font for the header and footer

Font Size - The font size for the header and footer

B - Makes all of the text Bold

I - Makes all of the text Italic

Page Size

Units - Units to use when calculating the position of the header and footer. This can be inches, points, centimeters, or millimeters. Points are calculated in the PDF standard, 72 points per inch.

Width - The width of the newly created PDF document

Height - The height of the newly created PDF document

Margins

Top - The distance of the margin from the top

Bottom - The distance of the margin from the bottom

Left - The distance of the margin from the left

Right - The distance of the margin from the right

Background

Use Background - Sets an image to be used as the background on the newly created document. Enter the full path to the image file on the server. Accepted formats are jpg, png, & tiff.

Note: This directory is local to where the server is running not the PAS Manager and so the file path must follow the format set by the OS of the server.

Image to PDF

Process zip files: When checked will also look for any images inside zip files and combine them into a single PDF document.

Order: Specifies the order in which files within the zip files will be extracted (and thus to be processed).

Alphabetical: processes the files in order by name
Last Modified: processes files based on the creation timestamp

Include Subfolders: Check the this option to include any files found in folders within the archive being unpacked.

Default Image Conversion Settings

Below are the image format conversion rules used when creating the PDF.

JPEG - remain as JPEGs & DPI from image (if not present default to 72)

JPEG2000 - remain as JPEG2000 & 72 DPI

GIF - recompressed to FLATE at 72 DPI

PNG - recompressed to FLATE & DPI from image (if not present default to 72)

TIFF - recompressed to FLATE & DPI from image (if not present default to 72)

B&W - recompressed to JBIG2 & DPI from image (if not present default to 72)